"Li Yang, come with me..."
In the dark of night in Gaodi Town, Bishui Village, Wang Xiangqin, wife of the local vegetable buyer Gao Jinming, gave her long, fair, and slender legs a little shake as she called out with a smile to Li Yang, Bishui Village’s renowned fool.
As the town’s resident vixen, Wang Xiangqin was very beautiful.
She also knew how to dress up, making her stand out like a crane among chickens in this backwater town, utterly different from everyone else.
And yet, here was a woman like her, acting so friendly toward Bishui Village’s fool.
Li Yang, who was about twenty-two, saw the seductive Wang Xiangqin, and his eyes lit up. He immediately followed her out.
"Come on..." Wang Xiangqin giggled at Li Yang. "Hurry, come with me. I’ve got something fun for you."
Just as they left the courtyard, a fat man slipped inside.
Watching his coquettish wife Wang Xiangqin leave with the idiotic Li Yang, the man gave a lecherous smile.
His wife Wang Xiangqin was beautiful, to be sure, but a man could get tired of the same thing after a while. Besides, living in this very courtyard was someone even more beautiful than his wife: the Bishui Village elementary school teacher, Ye Xiu.
Ye Xiu’s husband had died young, and she and the fool Li Yang relied on each other to survive.
Li Yang hadn’t always been a fool. Last year, he got into a fight in the city and somehow ended up simple-minded. His condition was deemed incurable, and after returning to the village, he moved in with Ye Xiu.
You might call him a fool, but he was exceptionally good to Ye Xiu, guarding the courtyard day in and day out. This greatly annoyed Gao Jinming, who had been coveting Ye Xiu for a long time. After much thought, he finally came up with a plan: have his wife lure the fool Li Yang away so that he could make his move.
Li Yang was completely oblivious to all this, simply following Wang Xiangqin with a foolish grin.
Looking at Li Yang’s foolish smile, Wang Xiangqin felt a surge of contempt.
’If it weren’t to satisfy Gao Jinming, I would never have bothered trying to seduce this idiot.’
’Just look at him, what an idiot.’
Finally, they were far from Ye Xiu’s small courtyard and had arrived at the edge of a dry well.
This was all part of Wang Xiangqin’s plan.
"Come here, little fool..." Wang Xiangqin shot Li Yang a seductive glance.
Li Yang’s eyes glazed over, and he suddenly lunged at her.
But at that exact moment, Wang Xiangqin dodged to the right. Li Yang missed and plunged straight into the dry well.
THUMP! A muffled sound came from below.
Wang Xiangqin stood there for a moment before chuckling. "Well, you won’t be ruining any plans now, you fool. The well isn’t deep, anyway. Just sleep there for the night. Someone will find you tomorrow."
Wang Xiangqin dusted off her hands and quickly left.
Just over ten minutes after Wang Xiangqin left, someone climbed out of the well, gasping for breath.
If Wang Xiangqin had seen him, she would have been scared to death, because that person was Li Yang.
"I can’t believe I was a fool for a whole year!"
"If Aunt Xiu hadn’t taken such good care of me, I probably wouldn’t have survived this past year!"
"You damn Wang Xiangqin! We have no grudge against each other, yet you dared to try and kill me here! I will not let you get away with this!"
Down in the well, Li Yang had inherited a medical canon. Not only was his foolishness cured, but his senses were now incredibly sharp, granting him an extraordinary awareness of his surroundings.
He finally understood why Wang Xiangqin had lured him into the well. It was because Gao Jinming wanted to make a move on Aunt Xiu and needed to get him out of the way first!
Damn it!
His eyes instantly turned bloodshot. He pointed in Wang Xiangqin’s direction and snarled, "Wang Xiangqin, if anything happens to my Aunt Xiu, I swear to God I won’t let you off!"
With that, Li Yang spared her no more thought and hurried back.
A foul anger churned in Li Yang’s chest with no outlet, so he could only sprint desperately toward Aunt Xiu’s house.
’Gao Jinming, you son of a bitch! If you dare touch a single hair on my Aunt Xiu’s head, I’ll fucking kill you!’
He prayed as he ran wildly.
"Aunt Xiu... Gao Jinming, if you dare touch my Aunt Xiu, I’ll kill you!" Arriving outside the courtyard at top speed, Li Yang roared at the house.
His voice was immense, echoing in the night sky.
Sure enough, just as Li Yang shouted and started to head inside, a figure ran out from the other side of the house.
From the look of that fat figure, it had to be Gao Jinming.
Li Yang wanted to give chase, but then he thought of Aunt Xiu. He had to ignore Gao Jinming for now and went into the house.
The front door of the house was open. Li Yang slipped inside.
Inside, the door to Aunt Xiu’s room was also open. Aunt Xiu herself was lying on the bed, dressed only in her undergarments, her face flushed a deep red.
Li Yang felt his mind explode.
"Aunt Xiu, are you alright...?" Li Yang rushed forward and lifted her into his arms.
Aunt Xiu wasn’t actually unconscious, but in another state entirely.
Having been a widow for many years, only one thought consumed her: she just wanted a man to hold her.
She had lost her husband ten years ago and was still only in her mid-thirties. In all that time, she hadn’t had any physical contact with a man.
Now, with Li Yang holding her, she instantly leaned in and kissed him on the mouth.